Good Dog, Bad Dog

Oh Bentley! I feel like "NO" is the most word in my vocabulary. I love the dog to death, but he goes a little to far sometimes. He is very smart, but sooo sooo sooo stubborn. I am trying to break him in on not eating shoes. I will take the shoe from him tell him "no" and put it back, once I turn away he runs right back and takes the shoe again. After being stern with him and he still takes it...then I beat him with the shoe (ok not beat him, but you know a spankin doesn't hurt) but he still goes back and gets the shoe....I don't understand. I have lost 2 shoes in the process and brad kind of lost one pair but they are still usable, so I wouldn't call that a loss. But thats not the only thing.... he loves to read books, which I can't even count how many he chews up. He ruined a cd a picnic table cover (which had never been used and a wedding gift in our camping package), the remote to unlock and lock the doors to my jeep, and I am sure there are other things that I am not thinking of. Needless to say he has done some done some damage. But when he meets me at the door and shakes is non-existant tail so hard that his bottom shakes too, or when he just can't get close enough to you that you can't breathe (like the second pic), or when he pins you down and nibbles on your ears, and everything else he does that makes me laugh........they erase all the things that he has done that makes me want to scream and becomes the best dog we could ask for. I mean how could you not love that face. He might jump, bark when you don't want him to, put his toy up against you until you pay attention to him, take something you don't want him to have, and run away from you when you call him........but he is a puppy and I wouldn't want him any other way. He's Bentley!